TY - JOUR
T1 - An aluminium-oxide-isopropoxide cluster with peripheral ammonia ligands
AU - Tripathi, Upendra M.
AU - Schier, Annette
AU - Schmidbaur, Hubert
PY - 1998/4
Y1 - 1998/4
N2 - The reaction of toluene solutions of aluminium isopropoxide with ammonia gas, without exclusion of moisture, affords high yields of a decanuclear aluminium-oxide-isopropoxide-ammonia cluster of the composition [Al10O6(OiPr)18(NH3)8]. The compact centrosymmetric cluster units feature tetra-, penta-and hexa-coordinate aluminium atoms, tri-and tetra-coordinate interstitial oxygen atoms, and bridging and terminal isopropoxide groups. The ammonia molecules occupy peripheral positions at two types of aluminium atoms.
AB - The reaction of toluene solutions of aluminium isopropoxide with ammonia gas, without exclusion of moisture, affords high yields of a decanuclear aluminium-oxide-isopropoxide-ammonia cluster of the composition [Al10O6(OiPr)18(NH3)8]. The compact centrosymmetric cluster units feature tetra-, penta-and hexa-coordinate aluminium atoms, tri-and tetra-coordinate interstitial oxygen atoms, and bridging and terminal isopropoxide groups. The ammonia molecules occupy peripheral positions at two types of aluminium atoms.
KW - Aluminium Isopropoxide
KW - Aluminium Oxide Isopropoxide
KW - Ammonia Complex
KW - Cluster
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U2 - 10.1515/znb-1998-0408
DO - 10.1515/znb-1998-0408
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040585308
SN - 0932-0776
VL - 53
SP - 434
EP - 437
JO - Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section B Journal of Chemical Sciences
JF - Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung - Section B Journal of Chemical Sciences
IS - 4
ER -